From big bang to big crunch and beyond

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 313-343

  Elitzur, Shmuel ^a   Giveon, Amit ^a   Kutasov, David ^b   Rabinovici, Eliezer ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Models in String Theory

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EID: 23044514589     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/017     Document Type: Article

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